Goodbye, September. Hello, college football.
The schedule gods have blessed the gateway between summer and snow with a stacked lineup. Four games feature showdowns between ranked opponents. Friday night features a clash of undefeated Big Ten programs, one of which happens to also be a top-5 team (please take this hype at face value and do not research who these teams are).
Saturday provides a test of Notre Dame’s fraud content when it faces Cincinnati, which is one win and then 10 more away from maybe possibly being the first Group of 5 team to crash the College Football Playoff. Arkansas, at top-10 program because lesser gods of chaos have had their batteries charged by the past 18 months, will be rewarded for its 4-0 start with a game against Georgia, whose roster may or may not just be several parts of a harvest combine reassembled every Saturday. Ole Miss gets ‘Bama in a game that is never, ever weird and delightful.
Also, Connecticut plays Vanderbilt in a night contest capable of erasing nine decades of gridiron innovation and potentially suck Nashville into a black hole with it, leaving behind only vague memories of David Allan Coe and lonely sashes that say “-elorette” in its wake.
In honor, let’s break down the five most interesting lines — provided by Tipico as of September 30 — for this beautiful weekend of college football.
